We’ve connected strangers
across the world to draw each
other, written Coca-Cola’s
most liked FB post, reignitedthe lost art of letter writing,transformed paper currency
into protest, inspired strangers
to share the last photo on
their phone, and redefinedthe meaning of marriage, but
the best is yet to come.

We are a creative agency specializing in campaigns that shape culture & earn media.

TOYOTA: FATHER’S DAY REUNION

Original Projects

A selection of Case Studies

SNAIL MAIL MY EMAIL

LAST PHOTO PROJECT

HACK MARRIAGE

OCCUPY GEORGE

We love working with brands that stand for something & bat down butterflies.

SELECT CLIENTS

Workshop

Facilitating in-person workshops that allow us to unlock our combined potential and understand a given brand’s wants, needs, likes and dislikes.

Creative

Developing unique insights and cultural truths to land at THE BIG IDEA, a media-agnostic, integrated campaign that inspires, delights, and champions human connection.

Production

Bringing a project to life, be it digital, experiential, or live action. We produce in-house as well as partner with bi-coastal 2018 A-List Production Company m ss ng p eces, where Ivan is represented as a director.

Impact

Positioning the campaign to get earned media that audiences seek out, fall in love with, and share across social platforms.

We make work for humans,
not consumers.

Our work slices through the noise, permeates culture and inspires radical engagement. The result is earned media FTW. We’d rather spend our client’s money making sought-after pieces of lasting cultural phenomena than buying people’s attention with short-lived ephemera.

Our integrated campaigns are media-agnostic—the creative executions are informed by the idea—spanning film, digital, experiential and social. (Oh, and traditional. We do that, too.)

Our work makes headlines, news feeds, & cultural memes.

Team

Ivan Cash is an award-winning artist, director, and creative director who founded Cash Studios in 2011. He previously worked at global ad agency of the year Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam and Venables Bell & Partners in San Francisco.

Ivan has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Creative, an Art Director’s Club Young Gun, and a Print New Visual Artist, while collecting multiple Vimeo Staff Picks and Webby Honorees.

He lectures around the world on the art of human connection, and has taught at California College of the Arts and Miami Ad School. Ask him sometime how getting arrested led to his first job in advertising. (For more info, visit ivan.cash)

Mary Michael Pringle is a creative director and writer who has spent nearly two decades bringing brands to life through language, storytelling, and whatever means necessary.

She’s worked at some of the most exciting and well-known advertising and design agencies in the country, including IDEO, Venables Bell & Partners, Butler Shine Stern & Company, and ATTIK.

She helps brands like Intel, Visa, Scion, Converse, Kate Spade, and Jamba Juice find their voice (the one that sounds like a human is speaking) so they can make real, meaningful connections with their audiences and ride off into the sunset together.

CONTACT

Based in Oakland, CA we work with brands and organizations around the world.

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